<p>Hi, I am from Egypt, so I'm international student of course (What a great piece of information), and I'm in desperate need for financial aid, well you should've figured the reason out because I'm from Egypt haha.</p>
<p>I've a cumulative GPA of 3.7 my most recent GPA was 3.82, Language of instruction in my school for scientific subjects (Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) is in English. </p>
<p>I will take SAT Subject tests in November and SAT Reasoning test in October (Can I take both in November one on Saturday and the other on Sunday?)
But I expect a High score since I'm not that bad at English (and I'll work on it) and Mathematics and science in general is a breeze.</p>
<p>What are my chances and is there suggestions about Less Selective schools with generous financial aid?</p>
<p>My Schools are:
USC
MIT
NYU
Caltech
Penn U
Northwestern
And for some reason I'm including University of Dayton (Although I'm not Catholic) </p>
<p>Thank you! </p>
<p>@DreamSeekerInter - I would advise you to research admissions and financial aid for internationals at these schools. In your list, only MIT is need blind and meets full need need, and to be honest, unless your grades come from a top school, you ace the SAT, and have solid extracurriculars, your chances of being accepted there are very slim.</p>
<p>The others are all long-shots too, and most will either take your ability in pay into consideration and/or provide less than your full academic need.</p>
<p>Top school? Well I come from an Egyptian public and to be honest they’re crap they often give you less than the mark you deserve! And what extracurricular activities are we talking about? Community service?
What are long shots are you talking about? How will they give me my academic need not?</p>
<p>@DreamSeekerInter - Take a look at the decision threads on the individual college forums to get an idea who is being accepted and who is not. You’ll find that many extremely well qualified students are not getting accepted to these colleges.</p>
<p>As an international who requires financial aid, your options are very limited. The colleges that are need blind and meet full need are only accepting the best of the best international applicants. MIT indicates it had 3 students from Egypt enrolled as undergraduates last year. </p>
<p>I would recommend you spend some time reading through relevant threads in the International Students forum and then post your questions there.</p>
<p>Until you take the SAT and SAT subject tests, and provide a lot more detail on your coursework, grades, extracurriculars and awards, it’s going to be difficult to get anyone to chance you.</p>
<p>OK then I’ll try, but my case is weird enough, since we don’t have any extracurricular activities in our schools. But let me ask you what are they exactly? I took de jure music classes but in reality it never happened! I participate in community service but I have nothing to prove it (yet) </p>
<p>Here’s the MIT 2018 results thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/1588918-mit-class-of-2018-consolidated-ea-rd-results-thread.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/1588918-mit-class-of-2018-consolidated-ea-rd-results-thread.html</a></p>
<p>You can read through the posts to get an idea of the activities these applicants have been involved with. You will discover that many activities are though the schools, but others are not.</p>
<p>If you’re in your final year of high school, it’s really too late to start any new activities.</p>
<p>There are similar decision threads for most selective colleges, and it only takes a minute or so to find them.</p>
<p>Aha, thank you very much for your help</p>